1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody. Recording from the Long Island 3 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: Bunker and not the Home Bunker. Folks. You know, it 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: feels like there is not a week that goes by 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: that we are not discussing gun violence or mass shooting 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 1: on this show. And that is because, as of the 7 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: end of April, right which I think it was over 8 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: one hundred days don't question me on the math, there 9 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: have been over one hundred and eighty six shootings, more 10 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: shootings than there are days so far in this year. 11 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: And I say that and I know that sometimes, you know, 12 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: for folks, it just falls on non listening ears where 13 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: it's just like, ah, you know, that's just what it 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: means to live in America these days. It's not normal. 15 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: And I say this because I have to say it 16 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: out loud to remind myself as well as all of you, 17 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: that how Republicans are forcing us to live is not 18 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: fucking normal. It's not normal when you have several countries 19 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: that issue travel warnings and guidance to people for coming 20 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: to the United States, which is what happened with Canada 21 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: and Germany. And I believe New Zealand and others that 22 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: have been issuing travel warnings for tourists coming to the 23 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: United States. I have long since said that I believe 24 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: that maybe if tourism were to take a huge hit, 25 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: that maybe then something would be done about the rampant 26 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: gun violence in this country. Because it doesn't matter, doesn't 27 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: matter where the polls fall, It doesn't matter that here 28 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: is where a majority of Americans agree. Those that are 29 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: gun owners are not that. You know, they would like 30 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: to be able to go about living their day to 31 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 1: day lives or dropping their kids off at school, or 32 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: going to the grocery store, or going to a house 33 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: of worship or any place without being fearful of being 34 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: shot and killed. Right. You know. I have come home 35 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: to Long Island to spend time with my family, and 36 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: my mother says to me, you know, it's just like, 37 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: the more I watch the news, the more I don't 38 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: want to go outside. And She's just like, but it 39 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: doesn't even matter, because I could be shot dead in 40 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: the house. Right. I draw your attention to, you know, 41 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: the latest shooting that made headlines, because, of course, folks, 42 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: I want you to understand that for every news story 43 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: that makes national headlines, there are so many local stories 44 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: that won't see the light of day nationally. Right So 45 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: the latest story to make national headlines, of course, happens 46 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: in the state of Texas, where five neighbors were gunned down, 47 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: including a eight year old boy, because they had the 48 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: audacity to walk down the street to ask a man 49 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: that was firing off AR fifteen rounds in his front yard, 50 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: because just pause for a minute, because that's fucking normal 51 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: that you just sit and you're just firing off an 52 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: AR fifteen. As if you live on a military base, 53 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: you don't, or this is someplace in the midst of war. 54 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: It's not. But that's what I guess people do when 55 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: you own AR fifteen teens in your front yard. And 56 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: so because the infant that they had could not go 57 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: to sleep because of rapid gunfire, they asked their neighbor, 58 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: could you stop maybe, And instead of doing what any 59 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: normal person would do, that gunman turned around, loaded up 60 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: his gun in his home, walked down the street, and 61 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: assassinated his five neighbors. The little boy, who, according to 62 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: his father, who was shot dead, saw his mother get shot, 63 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: ran to her aid, and then was shot killed. Three children. 64 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: As I've stated before, were also discovered covered in blood, alive, 65 00:04:53,880 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: but covered in blood of their parents. And Texas Governor 66 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, after days of not saying a fucking thing, 67 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 1: then comes out with a statement that is so reprehensible, 68 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: you know, folks, I am running out of words to 69 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: describe how heartless, how were moral, how disgusting, how just 70 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: gross Republicans are. Greg Abbott comes out with a statement 71 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: that says that these people were illegal immigrants, which they 72 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: were not. A few of the people, the human beings 73 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: that were murdered in cold blood, were residents of Texas 74 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: and residents of the United States. And to think that 75 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: a governor who had multiple tragic deaths happened in his 76 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: state would see to discuss the citizenship of the people 77 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:11,239 Speaker 1: who were killed rather than the humanity of those people, 78 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: just goes to show you who the governor is, and 79 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: he is a piece of absolute fucking shit. The sheriff 80 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: in the county where this shooting took place, however, did 81 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: what the governor couldn't bring himself to do because he 82 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: has no heart, which was to, with tears in his eyes, 83 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: expressed very clearly that it didn't matter whether or not 84 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: these people were documented or undocumented. He said, I don't 85 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: give a damn. There are members of my county people 86 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: who lived here a child, and that's what matters, and 87 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: that is where my heart is. You know. I spoke 88 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: about this earlier in the week because I really can't 89 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: get over it. I really, folks, that I just I 90 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: can't wrap my mind around how this Republican Party has 91 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: been allowed to say that they are a party of 92 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: family values, has been allowed to say that they are 93 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: pro life when they or anything. But we are just 94 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: a few weeks removed from the mass shooting that took 95 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: place at the Kentucky Bank, from the mass shooting that 96 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: took place at the Tennessee Private Elementary School, from the 97 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: mass shooting that took place at the Sweet sixteen in Alabama, 98 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: and from every single mass shooting that I'm forgetting about 99 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: that took place before all of those. Lauren Bobert, the 100 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: fucking dummy who represents a district in Colorado, she thought 101 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: that it would be really cute this week, following all 102 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: of those mass that left several children dead, bodies ripped 103 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: to shreds, with a T shirt, a T shirt that 104 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: she thought made a whole bunch of sense and was funny. 105 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: Was funny. She thought the T shirt that she holds 106 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: up with a stupid shitt eating grin on her face reads, 107 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: since we're renaming everything and there's a picture of an 108 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: AR fifteen, this is a cordless hole puncher. She thought 109 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: it was really funny. She thought she was being witty 110 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: by mocking the transgender community, mocking the queer community, and 111 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: also mocking the victims of gun violence and mass shootings 112 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: at the same time. A TikToker decided to do a 113 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: video where he clearly laid out that there was nothing 114 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: funny about the T shirt and how fucking heartless she is. 115 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: And so he went on to say, let me show 116 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: you the faces of the lives that have been taken 117 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: by your cordless whole puncher, And he showed in his 118 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: video the pictures of children from Uvaldi, children from Newtown, 119 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: the grieving parents of those at funerals putting their children 120 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: in the ground because their bodies holes weren't just punched 121 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: through them, their bodies were ripped apart. Because that's what 122 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: weapons of mass destruction do. They ensure that the shooter, 123 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: when hitting their victims, doesn't just kill them, but destroys 124 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: their bodies in the process. You see, we don't know 125 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: what these parents and frankly law enforcement authorities see when 126 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 1: they go to the site where they have to identify 127 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: the bodies of their loved ones that are unrecognizable. I 128 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: remember that after Newtown, one of the parents saying that 129 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 1: they had to identify their child, their six year old, 130 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: with their dental records because their little six year old 131 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: body was ripped to shreds, riddled with bullets, not from 132 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: a whole puncher, but from a weapon of war. When 133 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: I see the likes of a. Greg Abbott and Lauren 134 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: Boubert and those members of the Republican Party who removed 135 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: their American flag pins to place ar fifteens on their lapels, 136 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: I think about how they are beyond heartless. I think 137 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: about how they are so devoid of humanity that they 138 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: have no business representing anyone. Lauren Bobert has no business 139 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: being in Congress, not to mention the fact that she's 140 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: a fucking idiot, and that if we actually gave exams 141 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: in the way that you have to enter into law 142 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: school or grad school program we're at college and have 143 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: to take the SATs and get a certain score. I 144 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: wonder how many Republicans would remain in office if they 145 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: had to face I don't know a basic test of 146 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: let's say, the contents of the Constitution, or you know, 147 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: just basic laws, basic you know, Supreme Court cases that 148 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: policies are based around. If they would be able to 149 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: even get a passing grade. I'm pretty sure that if 150 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: it wasn't put out by QAnon, Marjorie Taylor Green wouldn't 151 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: be able to wrap her small, little reptile brain around it. 152 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: The fact is is that these people, by their actions 153 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: show you who they are on a regular basis, And 154 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert sees fit and the people that put her 155 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: in office, and we know that she hung on by 156 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: a threat. I think, what was it? Just a handful 157 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: of votes? Right, so when people say, oh, my vote 158 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: doesn't matter, it was a handful of votes that kept 159 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: that piece of traction office in Colorado. But I can't imagine. 160 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: I would like to at least believe that most people 161 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: in the United States actually have a heart, that most 162 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: people in the United States, when they hear stories of 163 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: mass shootings, whether they happen at concerts or parades, or 164 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: schools or synagogues or churches, or mosques or movie theaters 165 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: or Sweet sixteen parties, that most people, when they see 166 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: the heartbreak, the tears, and how communities and families are 167 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: ripped apart, that there would be compassion. But you see, 168 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: the Republican Party has become so detached from humanity, so 169 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: detached from reality, that they think that this shit is funny. 170 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: I find nothing funny about death. I find nothing funny 171 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: about mass murder. I mean, we supposedly have ethics rules, 172 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: but apparently they don't apply to actions being taken like this. Again, 173 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: if this were any other country and an entire political 174 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: party was wrapped around the ideology of mass murder and violence, 175 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: we would be invading, we'd be withholding funds. But in America, 176 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: so long as that party is led by white evangelical Christians, 177 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: I guess it's okay. It's okay to applaud terrorism, it's 178 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: okay to wear T shirt. It's in smile at the 179 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: trauma that we are forcing generations of children to live through. 180 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: You know, I saw recently No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen, 181 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: who I interviewed on Democracy Ish. My colleague and I 182 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: wajahat Ali interviewed on Democracy Ish last year, and he 183 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: reposted this tweet by Bridget Gabriel, a Republican, and she 184 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: tweeted this, raise the voting age to twenty one, Bring 185 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: back the draft. Gen Z is a disaster that requires 186 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: emergency correction. So I want folks to think about what 187 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: she tweets here. Raise the age to twenty one? Really, 188 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: so you should be eighteen to go to war, but 189 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: twenty one to vote? Right? Raise the age because what 190 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: Generation Z is showing themselves to be one of the 191 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: most conscious and politically astute generation Maybe because the prior 192 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: generations are handing them a fucking pile of shit in 193 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: the form of a country and the planet for that matter. 194 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: Bring back the draft. So send this generation to war 195 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: to die so that they don't vote. How about you, 196 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: motherfuckers create policy that people actually want to get behind. 197 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: But no, you're not interested in that. You're just interested 198 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: in suppressing the vote. This is not the first Republican 199 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: to say this. There's a multiple Republican members that have said, oh, 200 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: we need to pass legislation to ban the use of 201 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: college id's in order for young people to vote, because 202 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: they don't want young people voting, because you see the 203 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: more young people that vote and are able to vote 204 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: on their college campuses, the more young people that are 205 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: engaged with what is going on, you think that they're 206 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: voting for Republicans. What the fuck policies are Republicans passing 207 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: that young people are going to get behind. You're banning abortion, 208 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: you're banning books, you're banning curriculum. You're voting against the 209 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: actual environment in the air, clean air, and clean water. 210 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: So what policies are you giving them to vote for? 211 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: So you just don't want them to vote at all, 212 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: and you are saying because there is no quiet part, 213 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: you are saying everything out loud. So when people say 214 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: I don't know what's in the hearts of Republicans, well 215 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: you don't have to wonder, because they are telling you. 216 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: You know I people have said before that you can 217 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 1: tell where a country's values are by what they place 218 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: their money in. And we know that every year we 219 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: have the same conversations that circulate on mainstream media with 220 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: regard to the debt ceiling. Republicans want to hold America's 221 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: debt hostage in order to just fully decimate the middle 222 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: class and the working class by basically saying, as terrorists do, 223 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: either you cut social safety nets or else. Right, the 224 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: Pentagon received hundreds of millions of dollars over their actual 225 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: budget request. I think it was last year or the 226 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: year before, hundreds of millions of dollars over they asked for. 227 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: I'd call me crazy, but the next ten countries, according 228 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: to one of my fellow nerd Avengers on the Mary 229 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: Trump Show, the next ten countries, which are our allies, 230 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: have budgets that are minuscule in comparison. If we were 231 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: to just level out or maybe just give back and 232 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: redistribute the money that was given to the Pentagon over 233 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 1: what they asked for, this country, in so many ways 234 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: would be in better shape. People say, oh, well, we 235 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: need to be able to defend ourselves from who because 236 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: no one else's military budget matches ours. And even if 237 00:19:54,359 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: we were too, I don't know. Again, redistribute the of 238 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: millions of dollars over that we gave, and let's say 239 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: I put it into something crazy like education or healthcare. 240 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: American citizens would be better off. It's our tax dollars, right. 241 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:23,439 Speaker 1: You see, we've created this culture of fear and the 242 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: belief that we're always under attack. Somebody's always coming to 243 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: get us, so we must we must pump up our military, 244 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: except that is just thinking that extends from white supremacy 245 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: and manifest destiny. We have created most of the problems 246 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: that we have, and by we, I mean our military, 247 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: and our military by virtue of the politicians that you know, 248 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: get to create policy that use human beings as toy 249 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: soldiers and put them in places in order to rape 250 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: and pillage literally natural resources, disrupt economies for the betterment 251 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: of America. It has never been really about democracy, are 252 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: we fucking kidding? That's the biggest lie. It's always been 253 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: about plundering other nations and having a large enough military 254 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: that they can't fight back. We look at our issue 255 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: like immigration, and we want to blame it on those 256 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: people that are being forced to leave their homes, in 257 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 1: their whole lives in seeking out something better, a better 258 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: life for them and their kids. But nobody tells you 259 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: the side of the story that has had them fully 260 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: in the first fucking place, The way that America and 261 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: our politics are responsible for the instability that their country's face, 262 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: their lack of economic development, the fact that we have 263 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 1: moved around different prime ministers in presidents and put them 264 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: in place so that it benefits our bottom line, not 265 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: those of the country, the countries that we get to 266 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: label as underdeveloped because we've purposefully underdeveloped them and kept 267 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: them indebted to the United States. Colonialism may be done 268 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: on its face by name, but not in action. So 269 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: I want people to understand that when we are told 270 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: by politicians that live in this ideology of scarcity and 271 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: fear that my god, we couldn't possibly redistribute the over 272 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: budget that we are paying for the Pentagon into other areas, 273 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,719 Speaker 1: understand that they make money because they have stocks and 274 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: don't owner interests in war in defense contracts. This isn't 275 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: about safety, It's about fucking greed, and both Republicans and 276 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: Democrats in this vein are responsible for perpetuating this lie. 277 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: You know, I want to end today with, you know, 278 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: just a little bit, just a little bit of good news, 279 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: and it's not even really good because you know, unfortunately 280 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 1: too many horrific things need to happen, right, and then 281 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 1: we just pray for a monicum of justice. But one 282 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: of the last of the four officers who were responsible 283 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: for the murder of George Floyd. The paper is referred 284 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: to it as the death of George Floyd but I'm 285 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,719 Speaker 1: gonna call it what it is, which was a public 286 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: execution in lynching so Hannipen County in Minneapolis, Judge of 287 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: Peter Cahill said in a verdict that the former officer 288 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: the last officer, and I believe it's Tow Tao t 289 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: o U t h a O, who had waived his 290 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: right to a jury trial. The judge said this when 291 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: convicting him of aiding in a bedding in the murder 292 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:50,719 Speaker 1: of George Floyd. Quote he actively encouraged his three colleagues 293 00:24:51,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: dangerous prone restraint of Floyd. That he was guilty on 294 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: Monday of aiding in a bedding in second degree manslaughter 295 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: of George Floyd. And you know, I want to remind folks, 296 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: as if you need reminding, that George Floyd was killed 297 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: during the height of the pandemic in twenty twenty. It's 298 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: set off global protests in the midst of a pandemic 299 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: against the killing of an unarmed black man in broad daylight. 300 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: Mister Taw, the former ex police officer, is currently serving 301 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: a three and a half year federal sentence for failing 302 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: to provide medical help to George Floyd and to stop 303 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin from killing him. So he's already in federal prison, 304 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: and he is going to now be sentenced again, and 305 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: that hearing will take place on August seventh. Now, while 306 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 1: again we can say, oh, well, you know, justice has 307 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: quote unquote prevailed. What justice looks like is George Floyd 308 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: being able to go home after police were called for 309 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: a routine, you know, counterfeit twenty dollars? Did you know 310 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: that it was counterfeit? Here's a ticket and go along 311 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: your way. That's what justice would have looked like. Justice 312 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: would look like being able to believe that most police 313 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 1: officers are good instead of a part of a poisonous orchard. 314 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: Justice would look like not having to hold your breath 315 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:52,360 Speaker 1: and wonder whether or not officers who were filmed would 316 00:26:52,400 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: be found guilty. In America, this, while is news, is 317 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: not really good news. I'm confused about what good news 318 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 1: and our justice system would look like. Maybe it will 319 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: look like the conviction of Donald Trump for rape in 320 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: a civil suit. Maybe it'll look like the federal indictments 321 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: and then guilty verdicts for Donald Trump and his sycophans 322 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: for over trying to overturn an election and destroy our democracy. 323 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: Maybe it will look like white, wealthy people and police 324 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: officers being held accountable for their wrongdoing, and that not 325 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: being a hope and a prayer that the people of 326 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: this country have that it would just be this is 327 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: what happens. You break the law, regardless of who you are, 328 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 1: how much money you have, and whether you have a 329 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: shield or not, you're held accountable. We live in a 330 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:05,959 Speaker 1: really unjust, injust country where headlines like this give us 331 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: brief comfort when it shouldn't. That is it for me 332 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: to day. Dear friends on woke f as always power 333 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get 334 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.